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Sunday, February 03, 2013

Roanoke Times Continues To Support Bad School Choices

-Roanoke Times, 1-3-2013, Pg Horiz 1: Rescuing Virginia’s failing schools by C. Nuckols
Yet another liberal lamenting about failing schools in which THE PRIMARY SOLUTION IS MORE TAX MONEY! -Apparently spending $12,000 per year per student or $156,000 of tax money for each graduating senior is the root cause of the educational problems faced by our society.-
Click-back through the following links that articulate the real root causes of our total breakdown of the classroom educational processes and environments and the liberal media’s culpability in opposing actions to get our classrooms under control and also opposing giving the students of failing schools alternatives for success.
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The media could be a force for improvements and solutions, instead they choose to support failing systems and processes.
-http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/03/chaos-in-classroom-challenged-students.html
-http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/02/liberal-progressive-fears-of.html
-http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/03/yet-another-misdirected-roanoke-times.html
-http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/02/yet-more-roanoke-times-bias-against.html
-http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/12/too-dumb-to-serve.html
-http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/who-are-failures.html
-http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/04/its-measurement-stupid.html
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Outstanding Additional Followup Article: by Ms. Betty G. Price of Roanoke
School discipline begins at homehttp://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary/wb/301481
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The following well articulates a hypothetical public school teacher’s challenges:
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After being interviewed by the school administration, the prospective teacher said:
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'Let me see if I've got this right. 'You want me to go into that room with all those kids, correct their disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse, monitor their dress habits, censor their T-shirt messages, and instill in them a love for learning.
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'You want me to check their backpacks for weapons, wage war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, and raise their sense of self esteem and personal pride.
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'You want me to teach them patriotism and good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, and how to register to vote, balance a checkbook, and apply for a job.
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'You want me to check their heads for lice, recognize signs of antisocial behavior, and make sure that they all pass the final exams.
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'You also want me to provide them with an equal education regardless of their handicaps, and communicate regularly with their parents in English, Spanish or any other language, by letter, telephone, newsletter, and report card.
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'You want me to do all this with a piece of chalk, a blackboard, a bulletin board, a few books, a big smile, and a starting salary that qualifies me for food stamps.
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'You say that soon I may have to be prepared to shoot any outsider who comes into my class to commit mayhem...
-'You want me to do all this, and then you tell me...... I CAN'T PRAY?'
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